Author: Joseph Gillow

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 9781331054511

Excerpt from Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, Vol. 3: From the Breach With Rome, in 1534, to the Present Time It will be observed that the notices in this volume are more exhaustive than those in the two previous ones, and that, with a view to give the work a value independent of any other Dictionary, considerable digression has been made in the way of genealogy, history, and statistics connected with the subject of Catholicity in England. Much of the interval between the present and last volumes has been consumed in the transcription of MSS., mainly for future use. The formation of indices to these and other of my collections is a slow process. Any one with experience in this kind of work will know how tedious it is, and yet if a collector, however retentive his memory may be, intends to realize the value of his labours, full indices are indispensable. Some time after the publication of the last volume I was generously presented by Mr. John W. Fowler, of Birmingham, with four small volumes of bibliographical notes. They consist mostly of collations of the works by English Catholics which he has met with during the last fifty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.